Horace Walpole Quotes

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Experimentation is an active science.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.